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BEA take coding out of application development

BEA Systems this week is expected to launch a new product line that the back-end software maker hopes will expand the company's audience and perk up sales. Read more »

Yahoo announces social networking app for iPhone

Yahoo on Wednesday released a preview version of a free new iPhone application called oneConnect that can centralise communications and social-networking activity. Read more »

Citrix to pay a real US$500m for XenSource

Citrix has made an unexpected move into the virtualisation market with its intended US$500 million acquisition of XenSource. Read more »

Jive jumps into Web collaboration

Jive Software plans to ride Web 2.0 technologies into the world of corporate collaboration software. Read more »

Desktop virtualisation opens new doors for users

When Apple released Parallels Desktop in June 2006, it showed most users for the first time what they could achieve with desktop virtualisation. Read more »

Two Linux consortia band together

The Open Source Developer Labs and the Free Standards Group, two groups trying to standardise and steer Linux, have merged in an effort to increase their influence. Read more »

Mono-man brings .NET to Linux

Novell's Miguel de Icaza is working on a technology that he says can replicate Microsoft's vaunted software development platform on Linux. Read more »

NSW government pushes state-wide ICT plan

The NSW government has unveiled plans to implement a four-year state-wide information and communications technology (ICT) plan and reform e-procurement as part of a wider strategy to save the state AU$2.5 billion in public sector costs. Read more »

Is there an open source community?

A debate has been raging in the blogosphere over the nature of the open source community. Read more »

New Sun unit plans technology partnerships

Sun Microsystems will launch a new business unit next week to sell hardware and software that other companies can embed into their own technology products. Read more »

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Value-based approach to Web site design - Part 2

Steve Baty continues his guide to helping Web developers answer business owners' demand to show a return on investment. Read more »

Planning a Web-based project management system

Here's how one large construction company planned a Web-based project management system. You'll learn firsthand about how the company met the challenges presented by a massive project. Read more »

Cocoon project basics

Apache's Cocoon project will provide a way to capture, render, and deliver Web-based content for a variety of purposes. Find out more about this XML publishing framework. Read more »

Zend Studio 2.0 facilitates PHP development

Studio 2.0, Zend is attempting to provide a true IDE for programmers. But did it succeed? This article will provide the answer. Read more »

Construct a Service Level Agreement

The Service Level Agreement (SLA) defines the basis of formal understanding and communication between the developer and the client. Simon Jackson investigates why you need one for your project. Read more »

Centralise utility functions with Jakarta Commons Lang project

Apache Jakarta Commons Lang is an API, which aims to centralise common utility functions with good documentation, high stability, and a goodly amount of peer reviewââ,¬"or arguments, as the case sometimes may be. Read more »

Streamline your development process

A product development process should add value, but your existing process could actually be hindering your developers and costing you money. See how revising your process can help focus your resources and efforts. Read more »

.Net develops advantages over Java

Developers have a number of reasons for favouring one programming environment over another. For those attracted by good technology, .NET is worth a look. Read more »

Case Study: Switching places from Lotus to .NET

For almost a decade, Sydney-based software developer Just OnePlace (J1P) had been a loyal devotee of the IBM/Lotus platform. But following the strategic review that commenced two years ago the company made a strategic switch to the rival Microsoft .NET camp. Read more »

Easily integrate JavaScript with ASP.NET pages

While ASP.NET provides a robust development platform, developers should not overlook mature technologies like JavaScript. Tony Patton explains how to integrate JavaScript with ASP.NET controls in this article. Read more »

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